What should be included in the 2021 HTTP Archive Web Almanac’s chapter on CMSes? Joost de Valk would love to hear your thoughts about this — because he is authoring that chapter! The 2020 version is still available online.
Misogyny is alive and well in WordPress, but it doesn’t have to be. If we work together, we can make it an even safer space for all.
As Joost de Valk joyfully observed, Yoast has crossed the 300 million downloads milestone on WordPress.org. 😲
Is the WordPress market share beginning to shrink? How do we assess market share? What metrics matter? It’s time we asked these questions.
In reaction to as-yet-unpublicized details about the abuse of active install data in the WordPress.org plugin repository, the charts displaying that data have been removed from plugin pages in a move expected to be temporary. Important (and some familiar) questions are emerging as this story unfolds: how to balance the values of openness, security, and privacy as well as cooperation and competition at WordPress.org — still the central hub for WordPress plugin businesses.
Joost de Valk has started a conversation about developers testing their work with other developers’ plugins in Post Status Slack. Joost wants to take on what he calls an “integration problem:” “Every integration with another plugin we [at Yoast] add forces us to test the basic features of that plugin, with our plugin running, to…
In this episode of Post Status Draft, David Bisset interviews Joost de Valk about WordPress marketshare and CMS trends.
